Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-08-26
PRoCEEDI-NGS
z.. OF THE. .s5ss
Board Of Co. Commissioners,
MORRISON COUNTY, MINI.
SDe cial Sassiou. Auu- 90. 1887
spe cial Session. Aug. 20, 1887
Little Falls, Aug. 20, 1887.

Little Falls, Aug. 20, 1887.
The board of county commissioners
met at the office of the county auditor
pursuant to call.
Present, John Stumpf, A. G. Law
renee, T. E. Mansfield, county commits
sioners, Frank Ellenbecker, county aud
itor.
The board was called to order by
Chairman Stumpf.
The report Of the committee on poor
farm was presented to the board Of
county commissioners, and said report
having been duly considered by said
board, the following resolution was
adopted,
WHEREAS, OH the 25th day Of July, A.
D. 1887, the board of county commits
sioners of Morrison county by resolo-
ton appointed a committee of three,
viz: NJ. Kobe. T. E. Mansfield and J.
II. Rhodes, to ascertain the cost of
farm ofl60 acres of land with suitable
buildings and furniture thereon to be
bought or rented for a poor farm for the
poor Of Morrison county, and
WHEREAS, said committee was author
lied and directed to report to said board
Of county commissioners whenever they
deemed it for the best interests of the
county to take action on said purchase of
said farm, and
WHEREAS, the county auditor of Nor
risen county was directed by said COM
mitree to issue a call for a special meet
ing, as set forth in said resolution, to be
held at Little Falls, at the Auditors
office, August goth, 1887, for the purpose
of hearing the report of said committee
on said farm, and said committee re-
ported as follows, towit:
TO the Board Of County Commissioners
of Morrison County:
The undersigned, your committee,
would respectful report that they have
canvassed for bids, for farm to be rent
ed by the county for use as q poor farm
for the year beginning Sept l, 1887.
That they have succeeded in securing
only one offer, to-wit: the offer of c. T..
Trebby, of Belle Prairie, and said offer
being as follows:
To the Board Of County Commissioners
of Morrison County:
I will rent you my farm, consisting Of
100 acres, being the NEf Of Section 13.
Town II Range 50, with the following
buildings: One house with twelve l2)
rooms, with brick cellar, 22x2G feet, the
water supply by wind mill. Wagon shed
l6x32 feet with II foot posts. Hog house
l6x32 feet with cook room 10xl6, also
one corn crib l6x6 feet, 120 foot COW
shed l6 feet wide and II feet high, with
full water supply from a fifty barrel
water tank, one Mccormick reaper, one
moving machine, one sulky pillow, one
seeder, one harrow, one two horse rid
ing sulky corn pillow, one two horse corn
planter, one pillow, also forks for hay,
and other tools, which I will rent for
one year only for the sum of $3.50.
G. E. TREEpl.
And said report and proposition hay
ing been duly considered by this board,
be it, therefore,
RESOLVED, That the proposition of c..
E. Trebby be accepted for the term Of
one year, commencing from the LIST day
of Sept, A. d., 1887 until the LIST day Of
Sept, A. D., 1888, and T. E. Mansfield
Peter Medyed and j. H, Rhodes are
hereby made a committee to make con-
tract with c. E. Trebby for said poor
farm, and also to contract with suitable
parties to take charge of said farm, and
care for the occupants of said poor farsn,
and the said committee is hereby ;lu-
thorized to make such contract and pro-
vide such necessary bedding, furniture,
provisions, &c. as will be necessary to
properly care and provide for the occu-
pants, and also such grain, stock &c. as
will be necessary and required to oper-
ate said poor farm, and said committee
is hereby instructed that i'll making con-
tract with said overseer of said poor
farm, said overseer shall execute to said
committee a good and sufficient bond in
such sum as said committee shall find
sufficient for the protection of the
county. Adjourned, side die.
JOHN STUMPF,
Chairman 3D.. Co. Com'rs.
FEANK ELLENBECKER,
County Auditor.